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4 OAR AXLE BOX. 1N0. 255,451 Patented Mar. 28,1882.

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THOMAS S. PHILLIPS, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR'OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE D. BRIGGS, OF SAMEPLAOE. V

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7 SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 255,451, dated March 28, 1882,

Application filed January 20, 1882. (No model.)

T all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS S. PHILLIPS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have made certain Improvements in Followers for Holding Lubricants in Railroad J our; nal-Boxes,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement to on a patent to F. Orocker, April 27, 1880, No.

226,840, which is for a cup or follower for holding an animal-fat lubricant against inclosed journals, especially those in oil-boxes of railroad-cars, and held up by a spring or springs. That invention required that the outer end of these journal-boxes should be removable, or the whole end hinged for the purpose of inserting that cup and lubricant into said boxes under the journals. To do this required that all the oil-boxes now in use on cars should be removed or the car jacked up, so that it could :be put in and used in said boxes. This proved to be a serious objection, as railroad companies objected to havingto change the boxes now in use on cars or to take cars'out of use long enough to get the cup and lubricant into their journ'atboxes To obviate this difficulty and produce a cup or box that can be put into any railroad journal-box is the object of my in- ;o vention, which consists in providing a rectangular box or follower, made of tin and soleleather, with a hinged front end and a spring on the bottom, which is easily compressed, and which can be set into the present style of 3 5 railroad oil-boxes through the usual opening,

rectangular shape, for holding therein a rectangularcakeot' lubricant,and havingaflatbottom, a, and upright sides I) I). The front end, 0, is hinged at the bottom, so as to let down, as hereinafter explained, and is fastened to the sides when shut by books or other means. The back end, cl, is made of sole-leather and rounded out at 01, so as to follow the shape of thejournahwhich itpartly surrounds, and making a back to the follower. In addition'to this leather back there are extra leather side pieces, I) b, riveted on the tin box, so as to prevent grinding if/surfaces come in contact, as would be the case if all of tin. This is an important improvement.

B B are curved springs fastened to the under side of the box, being of the simplest form, so as not to take up vroom when compressed close against the bottom of the follower when it is inserted into the journal box through the opening or cover partf.

The lubricant is the now well-known cake of compressed raw fat-such as suet, &c-and after the followerAhas been setin the oil-box D under thejournal E it is pressed down, (the springsB spreading to allow it,) and the lubricating-cake O is inserted in to the followerA by having the hinged front end, 0, opened flat out, 7 (in Fig. 1 it is shown partly open,) when the cake 0 is slid into the follower through the open end 0. \Vhen in, the end 0 is fastened up. The journal sets on and into the cake 0 and therernns. Theleathersides,besides prevent- 8o ing any contact of metal, keep out dust and keep in the grease when melted.

My follower has been in use for several months past on various railroads in connection with what is known as the Grocker lubrica- 8 tor, and has been adopted by the company running that patent, of which I am a large stockholder, (instead of that originally patented by Grocker,) in consequence of the objections to that followeiyas before explained. 93

When the lubricant is worn down it is easily removed by opening the end cot the follower, drawing out the remains of the cake, and in. serting anew one in its place. This cannot leather sides b 1), leather end dd, hinged front 0, and springs B B, all constructed and operating substantially as specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed 15 my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

T. S. PHILLIPS.

Witnesses:

J. R. DRAKE, (3. H. KELLoGu. 

